Devil's Trill
β Scribed by Gerald Elias
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press;Minotaur Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 203 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0312541813
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From concert violinist Gerald Elias comes this debut set in the classical music world about the theft of a priceless violin.
Daniel Jacobus is a blind, reclusive, crotchety violin teacher living in self-imposed exile in rural New England. He spends his time chain-smoking, listening to old LPs, and occasionally taking on new students, whom he berates in the hope that they will flee.
Jacobus is drawn back into the world he left behind when he decides to attend The Grimsley Competition at Carnegie Hall. The young winner of this competition is granted the honor of playing the Piccolino Stradivarius, a uniquely dazzling three-quarter-size violin that has brought misfortune to all who possessed it over the centuries. But the violin is stolen before the winner of the competition has a chance to play it, and Jacobus is the primary suspect.
With the help of his friend and former musical partner, Nathaniel Williams, his new...
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